Guard Dog Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 I had few positive things to say about the Obama. Admin. But one thing he got right takes a big step today at 20:33 GMT. He cleared all the hurdles and opened up government facilities for private spaceflight. And today the first manned private space launch will take place. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-spacex-moment-triumph-astronauts-ready.html 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-threatens-to-close-down-social-media-companies-if-they-dont-stop-fact-checking-his-tweets/ Maybe not quite as explicitly as the story says, but he only started saying it after Twitter added fact-checking points to some of his tweets... Edited May 27, 2020 by Raithe 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Hurlshot said: No it wasn't. Not until after anyway. He was just being a contrarian **** at first. The reasons came after. Any one who talks about how awesome Che was does not get to complain about police brutality. US cops nation wide could not hold a candle to that monster. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maedhros Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Guard Dog said: No it wasn't. Not until after anyway. He was just being a contrarian **** at first. The reasons came after. Any one who talks about how awesome Che was does not get to complain about police brutality. US cops nation wide could not hold a candle to that monster. "Just to be a contrarian ass"? I thought from the get-go that he said he did it to protest the oppression and police brutality against blacks in the US? Image seems relevant if so. Edit: Haha, thought ass was the censored word. Need to learn to count letters. Edited May 27, 2020 by Maedhros 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
213374U Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 9 hours ago, Skarpen said: How did this happen that police no longer is to "serve and protect"? 54 minutes ago, Maedhros said: Edit: Haha, thought ass was the censored word. Need to learn to count letters. If I'm not mistaken, the word filter always replaces a bad word with four asterisks, regardless of actual length. 2 - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Pointless speculation about the next SCOTUS justice: https://thehill.com/regulation/499617-speculation-swirls-about-next-supreme-court-vacancy Neither Ginsburg nor Thomas is likely to retire. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Ginsburg has had some pretty significant health issues over the past year though, hasn't she? General poor health isn't great for longevity especially with covid19 around. (I have to admit, a situation where Trump is trying to appoint someone to the Supreme Court with a few months left on his term and the Democrats are trying to Garfield his nominee would be hilarious for the role reversals) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Socialism and having corpses decide legislation, funny how the left seems to be going full Inca. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Zoraptor said: Ginsburg has had some pretty significant health issues over the past year though, hasn't she? General poor health isn't great for longevity especially with covid19 around. (I have to admit, a situation where Trump is trying to appoint someone to the Supreme Court with a few months left on his term and the Democrats are trying to Garfield his nominee would be hilarious for the role reversals) It takes like two months for the new Congress to be sworn in after election day, don't think the Democrats could could hold it up nearly that long, right? 10 hours ago, 213374U said: If I'm not mistaken, the word filter always replaces a bad word with four asterisks, regardless of actual length. Wow. There have been many cases over the years where somebody had something censored and where I was trying to figure out what 4-letter swear was supposed to go in its place, but none of the normal ones would make sense, so I could only conclude that they self-censored and put the wrong amount of asterisks in. That makes a lot more sense. Also, somebody should fix that. Edited May 28, 2020 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 If its working like it is supposed to...what is there to fix? 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Well, I am tempted to put this in the funny things thread... PoliticalFlare - Report Trumps friends are planning an intervention to get him to stop the tweets and playing the victim "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 LIBERATE MINNESOTA! The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 A scattered bit of strong language in there, but this might interest a few... 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 So they burned down a police station in Minneapolis, apparently people looted riot gear as well. Amazing what one bunch of idiot cops can set off. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) Well, that escalated quickly... CNN - Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies Edited May 29, 2020 by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skarpen Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Raithe said: Well, that escalated quickly... CNN - Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies Good. The more restrictions on corporations and more rights to free speech the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Oh please, Trump can't survive 3 hours without twitter. 2 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 10 minutes ago, Lexx said: Oh please, Trump can't survive 3 hours without twitter. Watch this space if Twitter closes his account for being an internet troll... (no, got no idea if they have anything like that in their ToS, the thought was amusing though) Edit: from @Raithe's link: As he headed into Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump complained that he was COVID-19’s biggest victim. “He was just in a ****ing rage,” said a person who spoke with Trump late last week. “He was saying, ‘This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!” Even as the death toll neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldn’t see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. “The problem is he has no empathy,” the adviser said. Trump complained that he should have been warned about the virus sooner. “The intelligence community let me down!” Could be Trump in 2020, could be Nero in 68 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skarpen Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 19 minutes ago, Gorth said: “The problem is he has no empathy,” the adviser said. People say those kind of nonsense like it means something. Of course he doesn't have any. He's a businessman and a politician. People with empathy work in hospitals, homeless shelters and such. And even then you would have to look closely to spot them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Malcador said: So they burned down a police station in Minneapolis, apparently people looted riot gear as well. Amazing what one bunch of idiot cops can set off. They also burned and looted a Target and a number of small business. Most of those minority owned. Then they beat the living hell out of a white woman in a wheelchair and damn near killed her. So heavy handed uniformed murderers on one side, crazed looting savages on the other. There are naught but villians in this who sick affair. I'm done with the whole human race. f--k 'em all. $50 says at least half the people in this video have no idea who George Floyd is or why they are looting Target or beating this woman. Edited May 29, 2020 by Guard Dog "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Gorth said: Could be Trump in 2020, could be Nero in 68 Caligula would be a more apt comparison, just substitute traitors with immigrants and deportations for executions. Champion of the people indeed. Plus I'm pretty sure that Trump suffered from brain fever as well, and if he actually manages to lose to Biden (which I doubt, but stranger things have happened) he'd also only have a four year reign, and any given character in his ridiculous entourage qualifies as a horse. 4 hours ago, Raithe said: Well, that escalated quickly... CNN - Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies Trump's not entirely wrong to claim there are issues with social media. It's just deliciously ironic coming from him. Great entertainment. 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 9 hours ago, Malcador said: So they burned down a police station in Minneapolis, apparently people looted riot gear as well. Amazing what one bunch of idiot cops can set off. It's interesting that the protesters are using the same tactics as elsewhere (such as Hong Kong) but the reaction from a lot of folks is completely different. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 4 hours ago, Guard Dog said: They also burned and looted a Target and a number of small business. Sort of funny to put up next to some cops sitting on a guy and killing him that way. But I suspect the case is a bunch of outside people have found some cause to go break stuff behind. Easy to go bust up an area when you don't have to foot the bill. Trump as usual chimed in with nothing useful Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) Well, when you need to smooth the situation over and make sure you're getting better PR... "Let's arrest a reporter whilst they're live on air..." Edited May 29, 2020 by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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